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Original Title:	Night Train
ISBN:	0375701141 (ISBN13: 9780375701146)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Mike Hoolihan, Jennifer Rockwell, Tom Rockwell, Trader Faulkner

Night Train

Martin Amis

Paperback | Pages: 176 pages

Rating: 3.25 | 4957 Users | 409 Reviews

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Title	:	Night Train
Author	:	Martin Amis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 176 pages
Published	:	1999 by Vintage (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Novels. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case--this case--has gotten under her skin.

When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop--now top brass--takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it. Especially her father, Colonel Tom. Homicide Detective Mike Hoolihan, longtime colleague and friend of Colonel Tom, is ready to "put the case down." Suicide. Closed. Until Colonel Tom asks her to do the one thing any grieving father would ask: take a second look.

Not since his celebrated novel Money has Amis turned his focus on America to such remarkable effect. Fusing brilliant wordplay with all the elements of the classic whodunit, Amis exposes a world where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect), where paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive), and where power and pride are brought low by the hidden recesses of our humanity.

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Martin Amis has often been accused of not being able to create credible female characters. A female detective narrates this novel and perhaps he was making fun of himself by calling her Mike. Several times I had to remind myself she was a woman and not a man so I doubt if hes appeased any of his detractors on that score. Mike is investigating the suicide of a beautiful young woman who had it all. She also happens to be the daughter of his former boss. Usually with Amis you know youre going to

If youre thinking about reading Night Train, I would advise you not to bother. Read (or reread) Money or The Information, or any of Amiss nonfiction, or maybe something by Ian McEwan instead. There isnt enough here, not enough of anything. At 175 pages, its over before it starts. It gestures toward grand philosophical imponderables without really allowing them to impart any gravity or profundity. The police-procedural dimension, too, is entirely sketchy and insufficient. And our protag, Mike

I finally finished a Martin Amis book - though it's hardly typical of his work, so perhaps it doesn't really count. In Night Train, he adopts the voice of a tough American female cop, Mike Hoolihan, who's investigating her friend's supposed suicide. It's a pastiche of a particular sort of police procedural, edging into erotic thriller territory - it reminded me a lot of In the Cut by Susanna Moore, published in the same late-90s period. Riddled with deliberate cliches interspersed by passages

What can I say, I love reading someone pondering suicide; using fiction as their medium. It did it for me, in every sense of the phrase. Amis' succinct, biting prose rhythmically dancing from scene to scene, every sentence with a special flavour; every page dense with heat-it was majestic, and I enjoyed every second of my journey within this, at times, not so sunny novel. A tidy little number, well worth your time.

44-year-old female detective and recovering alcoholic, "Mike" Hoolihan, takes on the job of investigating the apparent suicide of Jennifer Rockwell, the only daughter of police brass, Colonel Tom. Tom is a powerful father figure for Mike: he saved her life by getting her off the booze. Now he wants her to explain what happened to his daughter. Jennifer had everything anybody wants: beauty, wit, health and a stimulating career. So the discovery in her orderly apartment of her naked body with

scenic, memorable, sweetly melancholy.here's a take courtesy of Amazon:(2 stars)Not the greatest thing, May 19, 2006A Kid's ReviewWell when i got this book i thought that there was going to be more action in it. But it is just a story about a girl who did suicide (i am not done with it yet). This book also has to many swears in it, no one talks like that, only teens do (that are immature). I can't wait to be done with this book.

Though I have come to appreciate the succinct style Amis uses (similar to authors like George Saunders) it seems he spends more time developing it than in giving the reader an interesting story. I recognize of course that plot is often not what a book is all about, but with Night Train it felt like a plot was waiting in the wings looking for the right moment to emerge, but it simply never happened. The characters were, if not stereotypical, then at least "expectable" with the exception of the